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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

THOIVIAS S. GILBERT, OF NEW IIAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

CORSET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 611,116, dated September 20, 1898.

Application filed June 10, 1898. Serial No. 683,118. (No model.)

To all whmn it 1nay concern.-

Be it known that I, THOMAS S. GILBERT, of New I'Iaven, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement in Corsets; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in

Figure 1, a side view of half of a corset constructed in accordance with my invention; Fig. 2, an inside view of the same; Fig. 3, a broken View of the bust portion of a corset drawn outward to illustrate the form of the gores; Fig. 4, a similar View illustrating a modification in the shape of the bust-gores.

This invention relates to an improvement in corsets, and is an improvement upon the corset shown and described in United States Letters Patent No. 97,418, granted November 30, 1869, to Thompson, Langdon 8: Co. as the assignee of Henry Alexander Lyman, and which corsets are now well known as the glove-fitting corset. In that patent the front, back, and connecting hip or waist band were formed from a single piece of material, the front portion extending to the top of the corset and notched for the insertion of a gore to form the bust.

In the manufacture of corsets it is necessary to either cover the outside of the seam by an overlying stiffening-strip or else to reinforce the garment by a tape covering the backs of the seams and secured to the adjacent sections of the corset. In employing the overlying surface strips they usually extend vertically from the top to the bottom of the corset. As heretofore constructed it has been difficult to properly assemble the parts and give the desired form to the bust portion.

The object of this invention is to simplify the construction and improve the shape of the corset without departing from the advantages of the connected front and back sections, as in the Lyman patent above referred to; and it consists in the construction as hereinafter described, and particularly recited in the claim.

The back A, central portion 13, and lower front C are preferably formed from a single piece of material, the back extending above and below the waist-line or central portion B and the front extending below the waist-line. Between the lower portions of the front and back a hip-piece D is inserted, and to the upper edge of the central or waist portion B and forward edge of the back portion A is secured the upper side portion E, which terminates in a curved forward edge E at the rear of the bust-section. Between this edge of the upper side E and the front or busk strip F is inserted a bust-gore which is formed in two pieces G II and preferably as shown in Fig. 3, in which the division is in a vertical line and when in position parallel with the husk-strip F. The forward gore H extends downward below the upper edge of the central portion 13 and cuts away the upper corner of the front C. VVith this construction the seams between the upper side section E, upper end of the front C, and the bust gores are reinforced on their inner surfaces by a bindingstrip I, while the seam J between the two portions of the gores is reinforced on its outer surface by a stiifeningstay K, extending from the upper to the lower edge of the corset. Instead, however, of forming the bust-gores G H as shown in Fig. 3, they may be cut as shown in Fig. 4:, in which the lower end of the rear portion G extends to the forward edge of the corset and the forward portion H of the gore is inserted forward of and above the portion G. In this latter construction the seam between the portions G 1-1 will be reinforced on its inner side by a binding-strip I. By thus forming the bust-section independent of the zone or main portion of the corset the parts are more readily assembled and a more desirable shape given to the garment than is possible when the zone or main portion of the corset extends upward and forms a portion of the bust. At the same time the advantages of having the main or zone portion of the corset integral with the back and front are retained, and in the latter construction the bone-casings may be arranged where desired without respect to the seams in the bust-section, and in either construction the seam-protecting strips on the inside of the corset may be attached without difliculty.

Having fully described my construction, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In a corset, the combination with the main or body portion comprising the back, the central and lower front section, of a hip-section, an upper side section, and a bust-gore secured to the forward edge of the upper side section and extending downward below the upper edge of the central or body portion, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

FRED. C. EARLE, GEORGE D. SEYMOUR. 

